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The UMLS Metathesaurus tools are briefly discussed on this page. Since all documentation for these are maintained at the website linked to below, only provide brief pointers are provided. Also, LexEVS has a special purpose RRF loader which loads an NCI version of an entire MetaThesaurus. This is explained in Installing NCI Vocabularies in LexEVS 6.0x for the NCI loaders. |
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1 | The UML Metathesaurus is controlled by a license from the NLM. You may obtain a free license of the UMLS Metathesaurus on the NLM license site. | |||||
2 | Download and install the UMLS Metathesaurus: | |||||
3 | Subset the desired terminology (recommended):
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4 | Set command line options in the loading script:
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5 | Find the SAB (RSAB) in the MRSAB.RRF file: | |||||
6 | Load the Terminology from the command line referencing the SAB.
The file path is pointing to the directory that contains all of the UMLS RRF files. For UMLS there is not a single source format file. | |||||
7 | Monitor output (optional):
Sample output of an early load step is as follows: |
Restarting an RRF Load
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